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Risk of Hypertrophic Scars from Earlobe Surgery?

rim78Nov 12, 2009

I want an earlobe repair or reduction surgery. However, I have a hypertrophic scar on my shoulder for the past 3 years. I don't know how I got it. It's 1.5 cm long. No surgery or injury that I can remember. I am 30 years old. I am scared of keloid formation once I carry out an earlobe reduction surgery. How scared should I realistically be?

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